Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.
Photography helps people to see.
Looking into the camera creates a special eye and soul contact.
People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.
I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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